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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-01-21

The annual sitting of the French Acad-
emy for awarding the prizes for virtue
and literary merit was held Nov 25. NJ.
Caro- read the report on the virtue prizes,
the chief of which %, 900 francs) was to the
Able Lemoine, who has brought up 750
Alsatian orphans and tended 1926 hospital
patients. Mile. Antoinette Lafont of
Lectoure has 1000 francs. She has for
fifty years dvoted herself to the distressed
family to which she was originally serv-
ant. Pierre Nicolle, a peasant, has 500
francs for having made his cottage per-
manent intirmary for eight persons visited
with terrible maladies, and Sister st.
Gauthier like sum for thirty years of
unbroken night nursing in Vendean
hospital.
OF the fourteen medals of 1000 francs
one Is assigned to parents named Rabaud,
who on their child being so horribly
burned in the stomach that only epi-
dermic grating could save him, immedi-
atcly offered themselves. Five large
CRAFTS were taken from the father and
twenty two smaller ones from the mother,
the child recovering after fourteen
months. NJ. Caro- also dwelt on the ex-
ceptional award of 5000 francs to the
Pasteur institute, which. though resolved
on some months ago, was not officially
announced till the other day. He pro-
nounced glowing panegyric on NJ. Pas
teur, and quoted his reply to his family
on their pressing him to take rest.
when | am not working seem to my
self to be committing theft Pail
Mall Gazette.
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A Man Who Defes Rules and Is Healthy
and Happy.

Prof. George Cromwell is probably
one of the busi st men in the busy hive
of New York, writes a Brooklyn COR
respondent. He is professor of music
in the intervals between his exhibitions
on the stage, and has other various
avocations, artistic aud literary. With
all this arduous occupation of his b dy
and mind, 10 which ''rest' seems to be
actually only ''change of work." he
eats but one meal-one 20 called square
meal-a day. Yet his health is good
beyond the average. There was a
time, he says, when he was the abject
slave, however, of a case of chronic
dyspepsia.
sand how did you get rid of it7''
he was asked, in the interest of thou
sands of suffering fellow-mortals.
81 came across an old crank Of a
physician who told me never TO eat
unless when / was hungry, and always
then, wherever might be, and at any
time, day or night
The professor, as he spoke, was at
Fulton Market ensconced at one of
Dorion's tables, behind series of dish
es.
"This is other peoples lunch hour.
i felt like dinner. ! have ordered one
and shall eat it. 1t is my last meal to-
dav. | have no doubt it will suffice
until midnight. Should / feel hungry
will eat then. but not otherwise |
follow the old physicians advice. /
have eaten at midnight, at 2 and 3
O'Clock in the morning in fact, at any
and every hour ia the twenty-four when
appetite demanded. You see the rule
agrees with me-
His appearance did not contradict his
words What he said started train of
thought as to the curious exceptions
which some people are to the ordinary
laws of health and nature. But are
these laws what we believe them TO bel
Where is the physician who would
prescribe anything but regularity of
meals and schedule of diet for the
professors quondam ailments Blu,
what do the fowls of the air or the
animals of the forest know of such
SYSTEM The wild horse of Tartary,
feeding as he lists or can, outlives in
handsomer body the docle creature
which man has domesticated to his
service and to his three meals day.
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The Doctors Great Mistake,

The bin approprating $75, 900 for the
medical and burial expenses of President
Garfield was not passed without opposi-
ton. Senator Vest was especially severe
on the surgeons, who did not know the
structure Of the human body, and who
had treated one part while the wound was
in another, like the carpenter who cannot
tell garret from cellar, or the shipwright
who knows not mast from hull. For
eighty days James A. Garfield lay and
swcltered, and agonized and suffered.
Bulletin after bulletin went to the anx-
ious hearts and ears of the American
people: "We have probed the wound; we
have found the bullet; the electric
machinery responds under the great laws
of nature until we have located the bullet
to hairs breadthr' And he died with
he far off look in his eyes across the dim
and distant ocean, and the autopsy showed
that they never came within a foot of the
bullet, and that they doctored and probed
and lanced the pus cavity for eighty long
days; curious exemplifcation of scien-
tlfic skill. Benz Perley Poore.
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Baggage in England.

The American baggage car and the
system of checks are not generally used
in England. Every passenger must needs
look after his own baggage. The small
stuff is placed in the car with the passen-
ger, and trunks (Which are in England
called boxes) are stored in compartment
in passenger cars. TO be sure porters
abound in English railway stations, and
every person with any considerable bag
gage puts it In their charge. So far as
could see, they were very intelligent,
faithful and prompt. 1t is customary,
however, to pay them for such service.
Arrangements may he made by which
express companies will deliver your bag
gage at hotels or private houses, but we
saw none. Indeed, the express business
as 1t exists in America is not widely if at
all known in Great Britain; the roads do
the express business for themselves.
whether this is an advantage we have no
means Of knowing.-H. w. Beecher in
New York World,
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Women Who Wear Tight Shoes.

"Women who pose as models have, as a
rule, poorly shaped feet" said an artist
to areporter. ''If their feet are not poorly
shaped they are apt to be out of proper
tion by being too small. The reason Is
obvious. Women are ambitious to have
small feet and hands and at an early age
they begin to wear tight Shoes The
result is that their feet are cramped and
do not grow with the other members of
the body. OF course there are some pro-
fessional models who began early in life
and never cramped their feet with tight
shoes. They have correct proportions. l
speak generally Of the mass of women
who become models after they are 1S years
old Women imagine If they have small
feet and hands they have all that is neces-
sary to give them a shapely appearances,
A worse mistake was never made. Women
who are large should naturally have large
feet In proportion; from an artistic point
of view they look better. But you cannot
make them think so."-New York Mail
and EXDress
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The family of a well-known anti-saloonis

The family of a well-known anti-saloonist
were gathered around suburban supper
table one evening recently when little Tommy
suddenly remarked; "Say, do folks eat
horsesi" AIN Paris they do, my DEAR said
his mother. "Well, guess they do in Bos.
ton, too" Tommy went on "Pa does, any
way" @What do you mean, Thomasp asked
his father, sternly "Well," !" said Tommy, "I
heard you tell Uncle Charlie that you took a
pony with your coffee every day at your din
ner at Youngs, and ii braced you up lots
for the causen-Boston Record
Little Johnny O., 8 years old, has gift for
studying the eternal why's and wherefores Of
things that is winning him distinction among
his friends The other day he heard some
one use the expression, "God, in His own
good time, will bring 1t about This caused
Johnny to speak up. "But God gets in AN
awful hurry sometimes, don't Hei" said he,
"Gets In hurryi Why, how is that, Johnnyl''
sob, Cousin Editb's got Manx cat ono Of
the kind that hasn't got any tail, cause God
must have got in hurry and didt finish IL
and Uncle Hiram's got COW that God didn't
have any time to put any horns tor
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Clerical After Dinner Takers.


Many entertaining after dinner takers
are found among the clergy. There is
but one Beecher, to be sure, but there are
several other ministers In New York and
Brooklyn who enjoy the creature com
forts Of public banquet and who can
supplement their feast of the body with a
flow of soul that is oftentimes rich in
thought and anecdote. There is Robert
Collyer, for instance He is an enthu-
siastic banqueter. His broad, beni ynant
countenance beams with pleasure from
the time he dips his spoon into the soup
until he dons his overcoat and hat TO go
home. He is an interesting talker and is
always eagerly listened to. His fnvorite
theme is the nobility of honest labor, and
he seems never to tire of recalling his own
early struggles with poverty when he was
an illiterate blacksmith.
The courtly Assistant Bishop Henry c.
Potter and the scholarly DIR. Storrs, of
Brooklyn, are occasional participants in
public dinners. The energetic De Witt
Talmage is as original and amusing at
the dinner table as he is in his own pulpit.
The Rev. John X. Paxton, the Rev. r.
Heber Newton and the Rev. Charles S.
Eaton-all young men-are always well
come guests at banquet, and their post
prandial efforts will, as "a rule, stand com
parison with those Of the secular speaker
for liberality of thought and viyacity of
language. Dr. Paxton is u particularly
vivacious speaker.-New York Times.
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Water for Stock in Winter.

A large proportion of the food of oul
animals is used to keep up the tempera
tnre of the body to about one hundr' d
degrees. Cold weather, damp barn
yards, cracks in the barn or sheds,
want of bedding and exposure to
storms, greatly increase the consump-
tion of food to no good purpose. Much
more regard is now paid to the comfori
of our stock in these respects than form
erly. We think, however, many fail
TO realiz- the loss OF food sustained ry
compelling animals to drink ice cold
water. Water as il comes fresh from
the well has temperature of about
fifty five degrees. When allowed to
stand until frozen over and the ice tn n
broken, and pieces Of ice suffered to re-
main in the water, the temperature
speedily falls TO thiry-fve degrees.
Experiments are reported which see IN
20 show that il pays 10 artificially
warm the drinking water for milch
COWS. BE this as it may, no one can
doubt that water at ffty-fye degrees
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RUSHING TO DEATH

III the attempt to swim the Niagara
Whirlpool Rapids is no more reckless or
dangerous than to triile with disease
which each day secures stronger hold
and hastens the end OF life. This is
specially true of rheumatism, neuralgia,
sciatica, and nervous headache, which
though perhaps slight at first are ex,
tremely dangerous, and steadily secure a
frmer grip until at last the agony is unen-
durable and sudden death brings relief.
These diseases can be cured by The use
of Athlophoros which, in connection with
Athlophoros Pills, never fails when prop
erly used. Read tie following from these
who have tested it.
c. A. Steward, Nelson, Pa, says, "Ath-
lophoros has saved my mothers life. Last
spring two of the best physicians in the
county, said she could not live two months.
She had been helpless for year, had to be
lifted off and on the bed, limbs all drawn
out Of shape, cords contracted, flesh sore 10
the touch, could not be lifted or touched
without screaming aloud. The soreness is
all gone the cords relaxed, appetite gooc
and gaining every day, and think a few
more bottles will cure her"
New Haven, Conn.
| had the neuralgia for three months in
my face. Went to the doctor; he gave me
some medicine to take internally and
preparation Of chlorolormt to put on the out
side, but it did not do any good. Could
not sleep night or day. Had suffered so
much and SO long that | was afraid it
would drive me crazy. Was told TO try
Athlophoros by n party it had cured of the
rheumatism. After taking part of bottle
the pain all left as by magic, and now AIN
well, with not sign Of neuralgia about me.
MAMIE DIETRICH, 10 Hudson St.
Every druggist should keep Athlophoros
and Athlophoros Pills, but where they can
not be bought OF the druggist the Athlo-
phoros Co., ll2 Wall ST., New York, will
send either Carriage paid on receipt Of
regular price, which is 81 GO per bottle
for AthophorOs and Soc. for Pills.
For liver and kidney diseases dyspepsia, in.
digestion, weakness, norvous debility, diseases
OF women, constipation, headache, impure
blood, &C., Athlophoros Pills are unequaled. 9
oct22-s SO Bms
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is cold enough for health. The water
that an animal drinks has to be raised
to the temperature OF ite body, say one
hundred degrees. Aud, of course, i,
requires much more fuel in food to
raise paiful of water from thirty-five
degrees to one hundred degrees than a
pailful OF fresh water from iifty.fve de.
grces to one hundred degrees. II the
heat required to warm the pailful OF
water twenty degrees was derived
from hay, or straw, or grain, the loss
would not in many eases be severely
felt But, rs matter of fact, this
heat is obtained from The consumption
of fat and flesh, or butter and cheese.
This is expensive fuel We are well
aware that il is not always easy to fur
nish animals water free from ice. We
fill the trough with water, and the cows
and sheep, and horses do not drink az
much as W" expected, and the next
morning there is thick layer of ice up
on the water. In such case, break
the ice in as large pieces az possible
and pull them out with a potato hook
or rake. d. not leave them TO melt In
the water Pump plenty of fresh water
for the animals.
With horses there il title trouble
because they are accustomed to drink
at once if they need water. But COWS
and sheep may be very thirsty, and You
may fill the trough with water and vet
they will require con'id rab'e time be
fore they will all drink Sheep especi-
ally seem to be very fond of running
water as it comes fresh from the spring
or pump In cases where a small
trough conducts the water from the
pump to the tubs or troughs, while you
are u nping you will see the sheep
drinking with avidity from the running
water in the small trough, while they
will scarcely touch that which has beer
standing for some hours in the water
ing trough. There is great difference
in water, and sheep know it inst as well
as we do.--Americam 4 Agricult,rist.
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And how few persons who can devote
but an hour or half an hour day to read
ing and study take due thought as to how
they can make the most OF their little leis-
ure. They read in desultory way what
ever comes to hand, and think that If they
had more time for books they would soon
become much better informed But the
half hour a day, il used In the wisest man.
ner, would make vast difference IN ones
mental growth as the months and years
glide by.
An incident occurs to me that well IL
lutrates this. A pretty maiden hair fern
growing in flower pot was given to
young girl hopelessly i'll with spinal dis
ease. 1t proved thing of beauty and Of
inexhaustible interest, as the delicate,
graceful fronds came up one by one and
slowly uncurled. There was Il little pot
beside the fern and under its spreading
fronds in which grew an aloe. BY and by
the sick girl noticed in the little pot some
tiny ferns scarce an inch high quite un-
like the maiden hair. Whence came theyp
Her interest was aroused. She was no
botanist, but she wanted to learn some
thing about ferns. She could use her eyes
for reading but five minutes at
time and not more than twice a day. A
book on ferns came TO her, and another
and another. Friends, knowing her in
terest in ferns, brought them to her fresh
and green from the woods or sent her
pressed specimens Of rare varieties gath
cred in distant lands. Sometimes visitor
would read to her from one Of her precious
books, but only for four OF five minutes.
81 cannot remember more at time, she
would say, land you have read enough
for me TO think about for IA long time"
1t is now some years since the maiden
hair fern was given to her, and she has be-
come an authority as to the species and
culture of ferns and is an enthusiast in
regard to them. 1t is true that she has
become edcuated in one direction only,
and is not particularly well informed in
other respects. But is it not great gain
that she should talk about her ferns and
their wonderful method of reproduction,
awakening her listeners interest and
teaching them many things worth remem-
bering rather than to dwell chiefly on her
pains and privations' 1t is many years
since she was able to step out of doors,
but when you are with her you do not
think of her as an invalid SO interested
and interesting Is she.
I
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Working Classes Attention.

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In Great Demand.

1t is said that Gen. w. Il. Sherman is
In great demand among the dinner giyers.
He has already enough invitations to oc.
cupy his dinner hours from now until
next September, with few dates still
lUan
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